Red Team Reviews

The Hollywood executives are on their coke bender again. Welcome to another ill-advised superhero three episode arc where TJ and Trevor first tackle the original X-Men trilogy of the early 2000s. Cue the trenchcoats and black leather jumpsuits. It's hard to tell who is the protagonist, but then again our beloved characters are hardly recognisable anyway, especially when they make everyone American...

Yeah yeah yeah, so we ran into a little scheduling problem and now we're doing Reject or Renew early. We’re fine! Everything is fine. Don’t worry about it. Returning to the task at hand, we dive back into the nocturnal misadventures of the no-parents batboy, by finishing off the first mondo sized season of Batman: The Animated Series. The sheer number of episodes, the BBC is shaking. Join us for f...

Who you gonna call? A new screenwriter. It's week two of October and we're taking on the bafflingly still relevant Ghostbusters franchise with the 1984 original, the SNL saturated 2016 "reboot", and the surprisingly enjoyable Ghostbusters: Afterlife. At the end of the day, at least they didn't give it to Joss Whedon. Join us for topical Olivia Wilde, Paul Rudd's stock in Basken-Robbins, the blessi...

It's October, which means it's all about the spooky - but it's also about  family . We're kicking off the month with the wholesome Addams Family live action movies (there was definitely not a third...), and the excessively less wholesome Beetledeuce. Beagleflutes? Beezelgoose. Trevor cannot pronounce it anyway. Join us for spooky non-binary children, Trevor's lack of a uterus, "Christian Hall...

It's the epic conclusion of Spider-Month, and we're not doing the Sony Villain-verse unless you're paying us! Yes, you're about to hear how well two men who love puzzles, actually, pivot when they realize they've made a mistake: today we take a precedented detour by discussing the narrative of the 2018 Insomniac Spider-Man video game, as well as the very real winner of June’s Reject or Renew draft...

When we said a month, we meant a MONTH, damnit. They say that a hero can save us, and that's evident as we round out our mainline entries with the two best** spider movies to date: Spider-Man: No Way Home and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse. There is quite literally not a single Spider-Person in film who does not cameo in this episode, for better or worse. And also Adam West for some reason. Joi...

Our spiders are men and our poops are regular - it's week two of Spider-Month. This episode we start the three (admittedly six, counting crossovers) movie arc of Tom Holland's Peter Parker with Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Far From Home, and boy is there just too much corporate fuckery from Disney and Sony to unpack. Join us for Trevor calling for people to be bullied, Shocker's reliable...

Welcome to the first entry of what is sure to be a long and storied Spider-Month, where we're cranking out all the cinematic Spider-content our Spider-hearts Spider-desire. And what other way to start than getting this reactionary take on Spidey out of the way by covering the Amazing Spider-Man films. Ya know, the films wherein Andrew Garfield can absolutely play Peter Parker. He just doesn't get...

None of you are going to have any idea what we're talking about in this episode -- and we're just fine with that! Welcome to the second half of our Reject or Renew double header, where we psychoanalyze TJ through through recapping all of the random lines and references he’s been spewing in his everyday life from the 2004 anime Sgt. Frog. You will never listen to this show the same way again, but t...

Reject or Renew? More like Should It Stay Or Should It Go. Get ready to trespass through some flesh walls, we're starting our two week RoR double feature with the first season of the 2016 instant Netflix success, Stranger Things! It's a big old batch of 80's nostalgia full of nosebleeds, awful parenting, and 6th graders gaslighting their new friends for information. Join us for Kataang parallels,...

In case you didn't get enough of it on TikTok, welcome back to the endless Marvel discourse. It's evident we're not the same Thor we were four years ago as we finish (mostly) our coverage of the Infinity Saga with the one two punch of Trevor's babies, Infinity War and Endgame. Everyone's hot, no one is sexy, and we ask the real questions, like whether they should recast Star Lord with Joe Keery. J...

Time to punch some Nazis, you f#@king egg. This week (and like, three weeks late, sorry) we're heading back to the land of kiwis and hobbits to honor the Pacific Islander part of AAPI Heritage Month by taking a look at the currently thriving career of Jewish-Maori director Taika Waititi. Cue the Michael Jackson haka, we're tackling one of Taika's debut projects with Boy, the New Zealand cult class...

Well folks, the day has arrived at long last. The day TJ has been dreading ever since we first covered A New Hope. The movie that pulled a Babu Frik and erased TJ's brain. And of course. We had to do it to him on his birthday. Threepio won't have to give us the odds on how this episode will go. Between the two of us, we have more notes than an organic chemistry exam, which means JJ and Chris Terri...

I think it's time we wrap this month, get all these anime tropes together. Okay 3, 2, 1, SOME- Welcome back to another Reject or Renew, where plans were made and plans were not adhered to: this week we cover the iconic late 90's anime, Cowboy Bebop, and if you're hoping we also tacked on the live action from last year... Just know we tried. Much like how we tried with Kung Fu Hustle. More on that...

SOME - (Jamie Lee Curtis hits you with a pipe) - BODY once told me there were new, exciting movies out that also happen to fit into our coverage of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage month. Get ready for a new movie jubilation (Lee of the X-Men) as we cover Pixar's Turning Red and The Daniel's Everything Everywhere All At Once. Do we need further proof that children of immigrants are not o...

May the Fourth be with you. And also with you having some. But let’s change it to trick John! May the cold medicine flow like the canonical midichlorians that are factually in your veins right now. Trevor's all hopped up on acetaminophen! For the first time in our *checks notes* second year of the show (stop it, passage of time, you STOP it now) May 4th actually lines up with our release schedule,...

What do we say after a month of Tolkien? NOT TODAY. Where we're headed, there is no "back again". Welcome to the medieval month of fantasy's Reject or Renew, where we tackle the first season of the behemoth who famously crapped the bed, Game of Thrones. Join us for brats with swords, Iron Fist's punchable face, oddly specific White Castle analogies, and the clear need for some characters to JUST D...

Get ready for an episode that is  nearly  as long as the movie itself! Join us as we round out our LOTR coverage with Return of the King, featuring the return of our real life Eowyn, Julienne Bailey. We ride into battle one last time in defense of Faramir, female character development, and the rightful contributions of women Tolkein scholars! Join us for weird pre-corruption Smeagol, Sau...

Much like Sam and Frodo, we're walking in circles around an Isengard's worth of Tolkein analysis as part of our LOTR month! And if you can't understand that sentence, turn back now. We're joined again by friend of the pod Ginnie Lee House to milk a whole bunch of religious parallels out of The Two Towers (though at the end of the day, we simply have to throw our hands up and say it's a musical). J...

Aw yeah. We're going there and back again with champagne in a bag. Welcome to Lord of the Rings month, where we're finally going to put in the ground and cover with stone the iconic early 2000’s trilogy of fantasy's OG daddy. And it’s gonna give us several climaxes. Like. As in the movie has multiple peaks in the story arc. Why, what did you think we meant? All month we'll be bringing in LOTR supe...

Thank you for being a friend, listener. And because your heart is true, you'll be a pal and a confidant, right? Because this episode may be hazardous to your health. But especially your opinion. But ESPECIALLY Bart. We close out Women's History month with justice for Twilight stars and Trevor's complicated relationship with senior citizens by covering the Oscar-nominated Spencer and this months Re...

What makes an animated movie the best of them all? And why do so many of those values overlap with Shrek? We're back for the raucous part two of our 2022 March Madness tournament, jumping back in with the Sweet 16, to determine a new champion of champions! Our guests return to have their hopes and dreams flogged like Miguel and Tulio from The Road to El Dorado, as these heavy hitters go head to he...

Let's GO!!! Get your brackets ready, because we're back on our March Madness bullshit, this time with a tournament that TREVOR pitched! Though TJ still made the bracket, with his now-trademark cruel intentions firmly intact. This time around, we have a worlds colliding brawl between animated movies *not* made by the House of Mouse (or Ghibli, because like... it just wouldn't be fair). We've got mo...

IT'S A PER-FECT DAYYYY (even though we missed International Women's Day by one day). This episode we're covering two classic 2000's comedies that showcase incredible performances by women, as well as confront our own personal childhood trauma: Legally Blonde and Mean Girls. Join us for analysis of Disney Channel character dating dynamics, Florence Pugh reboot requests, Maya Rudolph's standard two-...

Trevor apologizes in advance for his audio sounding like General Grievous. Anyway - we're back to finish what we started, except instead of George, we're going after JJ. This week we embark on the long journey through the sequels and spinoffs with Rogue One and The Force Awakens, two movies that (if you're not a shithead) make you look comparatively at all 70s movies and go, "Oh yeah. They were al...